The Founders never intended for Americans to trust their government. Our entire Constitution was predicated on the notion that government was a necessary evil, to be restrained and minimized as much as possible.
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All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
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The Republican Party is an empty vessel unless we imbue it with values.
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The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible – the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.
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The Constitution was not written to restrain the citizen’s behavior, it was written to restrain the government’s behavior.
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No president has the right to say he is judge, jury and executioner.
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Every child in every neighborhood, of every color, class and background, deserves a school that will help them succeed.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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[John] Bolton is so far out there, he`s advocating bombing everyone in the world.
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The history of African-American repression in this country rose from government-sanctioned racism. Jim Crow laws were a product of bigoted state and local governments.
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I read all of Ayn Rand’s novels when I was 17.
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You know, you look at term limits, you poll term limits, 70, 80 percent of Republicans or Democrats are for it.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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I call myself a constitutional conservative.
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There comes a time, there comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged.
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
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We will not cut one penny from the safety net until we’ve cut every penny from corporate welfare.
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If you give up your rights now, don’t expect to get them back.
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The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the Cold War, is that the engine of capitalism – the individual – is mightier than any collective.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Fear & complacency allow power to accumulate & liberty & privacy to suffer.
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If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.
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Using taxes to punish the rich, in reality, punishes everyone because we are all interconnected. High taxes and excessive regulation and massive debt are not working.
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Inherent to socialism is the absence of choice. If I want to choose my own pretzels or books or iphones, they prevent me – they fine me, or imprison me. And those systems, not infrequently have historically, have developed into systems where there are programs.
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The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed – socialism doesn’t work.
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I think women have come a long way. Women are in positions not because they’re women, they’re in positions because they’re intelligent and they should be equal to their counterparts and treated equally.
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I don’t plan on being bashful.
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